Five Atrocities Levelled Against DCP Abba Kyari

The ordeal of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari seems not to be ending anytime soon as more information about his atrocities continue to unfold.

There had been different allegations levelled against the super cop but none has been able to pin him to the crime.

Kyari at different times had been severally accused of extrajudicial killings and high-level extortion which the Nigeria Police Force had not acted on.

The former head of IRT had been linked to brutality and corruption, with the case seeing him being linked to confessed Internet Fraudster, Abbas Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi.

Abbas during interrogation had confessed that he paid bribes to Kyari to have one of his rivals arrested and jailed in Nigeria following a dispute over a $1.1 million dupe of a Qatari businessperson.

The latest saw Kyari arrested by police on Monday over the link to the drug-related case.

Naija News had taken out time to gather a list of allegations levelled against Kyari.

1. One of the suspects in the Offa bank robbery which occurred in April 2018, Friday Akininibosin had accused Kyari of killing Michael Adiukwu a member of the Offa robbery gang for not playing along with their script.

Akininibosin stated that Kyari had forced the suspect to accuse former Senate President Bukola Saraki of sponsoring the robbery operation.

He further that Kyari and his team killed five people to intimidate him and other suspects to pin it on the former governor of Kwara State.

Kyari having claimed that Adiukwu slumped and died in detention failed to produce a post mortem report to validate the claim before the court.

2. Kyari in 2018 was accused of killing Collins Ezenwa, an Enugu based billionaire kidnapper.

There were allegations that the super cop took over Ezenwa’s multi-million naira assets without any form of a court injunction.

3. A Lagos-based businessman, Afeez Mojeed in 2014 accused Kyari and his team of extorting funds to the time of N41 million.

Mojeed claimed that the suspended DCP and two other officers broke into his Ajah residence illegally.

According to Mojeed, Kyari and his men carted away items including phones, cheque books, bank cards, and documents after ransacking the house.

He further stated after being detained, Kyari forced him to sign Zenith Bank cheques in the sum of N150,000 each, making N450,000 between  October 22 and 23, 2014.

Mojeed added that police on the direction of Kyari obtained the password to his bank card withdrawing another N395,000 between October 20 and 23, 2014.

He alleged that Kyari took him to Diamond bank to forcibly transfer N41 million and N800,000 from his corporate account into the account of a man, Obinna Edward, on October 23 and 24, 2014

4. Kyari in 2021 was accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States of America of being involved in a fraud case involving internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi.

It was reported that Hushpuppi paid bribes to Kyari to have one of his rivals arrested and jailed in Nigeria following a dispute over a $1.1 million dupe of a Qatari. businessperson.

The Police Service Commission recently directed the police to investigate him on the case within two weeks.

5. Kyari on Monday, 14th February, 2022 was arrested by the police and handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency after he was linked to the trafficking of cocaine.

Kyari was arrested by the police alongside four others.